On 9/6/05, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Roy Smith a écrit : > > > can the module be invoked on several processors on the same time ? > > if yes, locking must be made on every variable !! > > It depends on what does your module. Try to be more precise. > > Is it a block device driver, a character device driver, does it provide > a /proc interface, a /sys interface, an ioctl() interface, or whatever ? > Yes be precise, but I want to mention that if your module registers with kernel in the form of device driver etc that is it is providing/exporting call-back funcitons to the kernel then they can be called on different processors and in differen contexts and this also applies to threads, work-queues etc if you implement them in the module. And I think your module will be things which I mentioned ..... -- Fawad Lateef -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
